Readings of Fork Everything! · 7:53pm May 6th, 2016
In what is likely hilarious timing for everyone except the two people involved, Fork Everything has gotten not one, but two readings within 24 hours of each other.
ABagOfVicodin has added my humble piece to his impressive list of impressive fics:
Meanwhile, Voiceguy's done his rendition as well, with the very fitting offer to spoon it out (time before, after or during the reading unspecified):
If there was the option to display these parallel to each other I'd have done it, I swear.
I might as well just admit that I listened to them back to back. Mmm, fanfic-that-I-wrote-recently-now-read-by-people. So delish on the ears. If you've already read the fic, go and give them some love and see if it matches up to your inner voice when you read it. It's fun! If you haven't, having simply bookmarked it for the hopefully near future - and that's what I presume most of the favourites to be (I see you) - you now have a second medium to partake of it through.
You now have a second medium to enjoy your ponyfic through. What a time to be alive.
Mostly irrelevant gushing below the page break.
ok seriously what dafuq the fork dafuq is going on
It's silly - but hey, you've seen worse from me - it's silly but I'll admit I was thinking of doing a reading of Scald from time to time. Of course, I didn't plan to actually do it, since my mic is crap and all, but I thought about it. Doing a reading of my own fic, I mean.
Then this happens, and I'm floored. Like, it's 3.36 am and I have to type out this blog anyways because dafuq did i just unlock the secret to Fimfic? It's pretty much the crowning glory, isn't it, second to getting your own animated shorts, for fanfic to get readings done of them? We're moving up the ranks, boiz.
If this occasion doesn't deserve a Patchy then nothing does.
I can now download the audio and play it on my phone instead of using text-to-speech, and they'd be like "That's a real person reading" and I'd be like "I wrote what they're reading". What a time to be alive indeed.
Anyways, two things I think I learned from listening to the readings:
1) Dayum readings are intense. You gotta really hustle those syllables to keep your audio reasonable; 2035 words resulted in around 10 to 11 minutes. I can't imagine what it must be like for the people doing stuff like Fo:E... and I can't imagine listening all the way through. I guess you could look at it like an old-timey radio broadcast drama/mystery? Those are really cool.
2) The control that goes into these is considerable. Whatever crude exaggerated method I had been thinking of doing for Scald was schooled instantly. I mean, that's what you'd think about readings if you didn't know about them right? Maybe it's just me, but I've always thought of it like reading a children's book. Slow, varied sorta thing. No. Due to #1 you gotta keep the flow steady, and steadily fast, and that probably makes too much variation jarring and laborious. To be fair, Fork Everything is mostly monologue/narrative, so it's expected for everything to be the same-ish.
No, but this consistency actually gave the good moments the space to shine. You notice subtle changes clearer when you have a baseline of listening, I think. ABagofVicodin's rendition of the steel part shows this nicely; you can almost see the scene changing to a dark fiery furnace and a giant processing machine, just from the slightly more sinister dip of his voice.
But back to gushing. Wow. So I now have my first reading, and it comes in a twin package. A heartfelt thank you to both ABagofVicodin and Voiceguy, and I'm absolutely glad that you found it worth your time and effort to read, both with your eyes and your voice!
Maybe I've been going about this plot-must-be-serious thing the wrong way all this time.
Also, if you've made it this far, sneaky spoiler for the two people who'd understand: eeyup, it's a Caughlin Mare reference.
Sometimes when you're reading, you gotta "get into the moment", especially when it comes to thoughts. While some stories would do well as being read like a children's fairy tale, others usually need a similar and fast cadance, just to keep listeners intact. If you're wanting to get into more readings, I'd suggest checking out a video I did with TheLostNarrator, who is one of the head honchos of fanfiction readings.
She's amazing and I feel these tips are awesome. Happy writing and perhaps reading sometime soon?
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Thanks for that! I'll be sure to check it out, and if I do choose - well, let's say you'll hear about it? ;)